Jennifer Lupo

Jennifer Lupo is a distinguished neutral with more than 30 years' experience. Her areas of expertise lie in resolving business-to-business, complex commercial, employment and insurance disputes. She brings a unique perspective to her craft as a neutral because she has sat in each seat at the dispute resolution table; as a civil litigator, as a general counsel to private and public companies, and finally, as the neutral. Ms. Lupo is a member of the national commercial and employment arbitration and mediation rosters of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), the National Association of Distinguished Neutrals; and a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitrator. She is also a member of mediation panels of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Commercial Division, amongst others. Having mediated or arbitrated over one thousand cases to date, representative matters in the past five years are in the areas of: business divorce (and shareholder and member disputes), business-to-business, complex commercial, contracts (domestic and international), construction/engineering/architecture malpractice, employment (employee and executive), entertainment (music, theater, and film), financial institutions and investments, insurance, information technology, intellectual property, franchise, sports (boxing, baseball and football) and telecommunications.

Jen is a AAA Higginbotham fellow, a Judith S. Kaye fellow of the Historical Society of the New York Courts, and a
fellow of the New York Bar Foundation. She is an active member of several bar and dispute resolution organizations including Arbitral Women, ABA Dispute Resolution and Business Law Sections, NYSBA: Commercial and Federal Litigation, Business Law, Labor and Employment and is a founding member of the Dispute Resolution Section, where she is an Executive Committee member and co-chairs the arbitration committee. Ms. Lupo is a sought-after speaker who gives presentations regularly on issues pertaining to mediation and arbitration. Jen volunteers her time to Monday Night Law (a modest means law clinic of the NYCBAR) and mentors’ children in foster care, college (BardWorks), law school and new legal and ADR practitioners.